The trial began Tuesday — a year to the day after the incident occurred at the Coseyburn Road home Lutz shared with her 46-year-old son. Lutz was cuffed to a vehicle for more than four hours while her son used a remote starter to start the vehicle several times. She escaped after her son threw the keys to the handcuffs at her.

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Adam Lutz asked his mother to buy some chlorine for the pool and to give him $1,000 in cash on Aug. 26, 2013. He promised to have a surprise for her when she returned. The store was out of chlorine, and she stopped at home on the way to another store.

“He got mad because I didn’t get the chlorine,” Lutz said of her son, who was wearing his deceased father’s police badges and dog tags along with a beach towel.

She had been sitting on a bar stool, and Adam Lutz handcuffed her to the stool.

“I knew then, that was the surprise for me,” she said.

The handcuff was tight on her wrist, and every time she asked him to loosen it, he would tighten it more. He dragged his mother through the laundry room and to the garage, Gloriann said.

“He just kept saying ‘You’re going to die. You’re going to die, and it will only take eight minutes,’” she said.

In the garage, she was initially cuffed to a filing cabinet. She was able to reach a golf club and push a button with it to open the garage door, but the door opened less than two feet before Adam heard it and came back outside. He uncuffed his mother and handcuffed her to the trailer hitch of a Chevrolet Suburban that was parked in the garage.

“He shut the door first, and he said ‘You’ll never see this again. This will be the last time. You’re going to die,’” she said.

Gloriann was forced to kneel behind the vehicle, causing severe pain to her knees.

Afraid that she was dying, she kicked over a barrel and was able to use it to aid her breathing. The vehicle continued to shut off and turn back on, and she was unaware that it had a remote start function.

“I’m thinking ‘I don’t want to die,’” she said.

“I would have taken my arm off if I could have.” She was unable to reach a saw.

Adam returned later and threw a glass of water at her after she asked for a drink.

“He said ‘I’m going to roll you up in a rug and throw you in the lake,’” she said. They had seen a television show featuring a similar scenario days before the incident.

“He said ‘If that doesn’t work and you’re dead, I’m just going to leave you hooked (to the vehicle) and pull you out in the driveway behind the Jet Skis and let everyone come out and see you and then call the coroner,” she said.

“That’s when I thought he was absolutely going to do it.”

Later that day, Adam returned to the garage and threw the badges and the handcuff keys at his mother.

“I actually think he wanted me to (unlock the handcuffs),” she said.

“I think I just wasn’t dying fast enough or something was wrong.”

The two fought after Gloriann attempted to pull herself inside her vehicle. She found some sanitizer inside and sprayed it in Adam’s face, allowing her to escape.

She spent the rest of the night outside near the pool and called family members the next day. They notified police and an investigation began.

The time spent on her knees caused pain that continues to bother Gloriann today. She still feels pain on her wrist from the handcuff and feels pain on her face.

“I looked really nice the day before and then I looked 90 the next day,” she said.

“I’m not getting circulation in my face.”

Gloriann had no health issues prior to the incident, but now must take 16 medications each day.

“I don’t think I’ve really dealt with (what it’s like to have a son do this to a mother),” she said.

She hopes to fight off health issues and to help others in similar situations.

“I would love to be a volunteer person so that I could say to somebody, real people, that I will get stronger,” she said.